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KNOX – Legion trying to find medal-winners’ families, but it’s a tricky task

May 15, 2022 // 0 Comments

DID YOUR PARENTS or grandparents or great-whatevers serve in the military? Did they belong to the Royal Canadian Legion in Victoria? Do you know where their medals are? The [Continue]

KNOX – He had five large pizzas delivered from a pizzeria in Windsor

May 8, 2022 // 0 Comments

JOHN PALMER left his hometown of Windsor, Ont., to join the navy in 1977. Trudeau 1.0 was prime minister. Gretzky was playing junior B in Toronto. You could still fly CP Air, [Continue]

KNOX – The problem with four-year terms for mayors and councillors

May 1, 2022 // 3 Comments

LILLIAN SZPAK HAS ANNOUNCED she is pulling the plug, won’t run for re-election to Langford council in October. Actually, the decision merely confirms one she made on [Continue]

KNOX – Guy ‘ The Flower’ Lafleur hit the sweet spot of shared experience

April 24, 2022 // 0 Comments

I ONCE BOUGHT a Montreal Canadiens sweater with the number 15 on it, because even in my driveway dreams I wasn’t good enough to wear Guy Lafleur’s number 10. Nobody [Continue]

KNOX – Mystery of who owns Meghan and Harry’s vacay mansion solved

April 17, 2022 // 0 Comments

DURING THE MEGXIT MADNESS of a couple of years back, when Prince Harry and Meghan Markle decided to step back from royal life, one of the great mysteries was the ownership of [Continue]

KNOX – Trying to keep a head of the game with wax museum collection

April 10, 2022 // 0 Comments

KEN LANE KEEPSs hundreds of disembodied heads in his Saanich basement. He forwarded photos of a couple of them last week — or, at least, pictures of the boxes in which [Continue]

KNOX – Picking up COVID test with a float plane just part of the service

April 3, 2022 // 0 Comments

HERE’S AN EYEBROW-RAISER: federal health authorities just paid for a float plane to pick up a woman’s COVID test from Lasqueti Island. No, this is not an April [Continue]

KNOX – Another Jack, flags, housing and the Queen’s missing head

March 27, 2022 // 0 Comments

A GRAB BAG for the first weekend of spring: • There has been a certain amount of chortling/eyerolling — it depends on where your sense of humour is at — about the [Continue]

KNOX – A key question for Ukrainian influx: how will it be paid for?

March 20, 2022 // 1 Comment

AT VICTORIA’S UKRAINIAN Cultural Centre, they just sent over money to buy 25 bulletproof vests for paramedics back in the old country. Now they brace for the flood [Continue]

KNOX – Throwing paint on church doors will do nothing to help Ukraine

March 6, 2022 // 0 Comments

SOMEBODY JUST VANDALIZED St. Sophia’s Orthodox Church in Fairfield, throwing red paint on the front doors. The vandals probably thought they were striking a blow for [Continue]

KNOX – A prayer for peace in Ukraine

February 27, 2022 // 0 Comments

FATHER YURIV VYSHNEVSKYY is shovelling snow from his stairs before Thursday morning’s service. What, he is asked, does a priest tell parishioners to do on a day like [Continue]

KNOX – The pandemic has brought families much closer together

February 21, 2022 // 0 Comments

SHE WAITED UNTIL the closing ceremonies were over, then turned off the television, which had the same effect as unplugging Bob’s life support. “Alice, something’s wrong [Continue]

KNOX – How do we contain auto traffic downtown without cutting off access?

February 13, 2022 // 0 Comments

CALL IT NUMBER NERD Nirvana. Or, depending on your perspective, an alternative to NyQuil. When Statistics Canada unveiled its first set of findings from the 2021 census [Continue]

KNOX – Protests, from vaccination mandates to B.C.’s goat-milking laws

February 6, 2022 // 1 Comment

I UNPLUGGED for January. Disabled my email, turned off Twitter, threw the phone in the toilet and focused on a single project, distraction-free. Slept like the dead every [Continue]